DAY 27 14 JULY HELLS GATE ROADHOUSE REST DAY
Washing into the machine and the day’s work was pretty much done.
I asked the backpackers behind the counter for a largish tin can so I could try making a Hobo …
Category: 2017 Cairns Darwin
DAY 26 13 JULY DOOMADGEE TO HELLS GATE ROADHOUSE
DAY 26 13 JULY DOOMADGEE TO HELLS GATE ROADHOUSE
Brian and Christine up well before sunrise as usual fixing tea and porridge. On the road by about 8:30 on bitumen. Bruce stayed behind to do more blogging while in range …
DAY 25 12 JULY ELIZABETH CREEK TO DOOMADGEE
DAY 25 12 JULY ELIZABETH CREEK TO DOOMADGEE
Road was pretty good all day but I was knackered. Only just made it out to the bitumen for a very slow run the last 8 km to Doomadgee. Everyone very dry. …
DAY 24 11 JULY LAWN HILL TO ELIZABETH CREEK
DAY 24 11 JULY LAWN HILL TO ELIZABETH CREEK
Back out along the crappy corrugations and dust (no-one fell off this time) the 14 km to the main road.
The corrugations disappeared as soon as we headed north through …
DAY 23 10 JULY LAWN HILL GORGE CANOING, RESTING
DAY 23 10 JULY LAWN HILL GORGE CANOING, RESTING
A tin of baked beans all to myself for breakfast. Then take the transfer bus ($25 p.p.return) the 10km to the gorge. All the canoes were out so walked across the …
DAY 22 9 JULY GREGORY RIVER TO LAWN HILL
DAY 22 9 JULY GREGORY RIVER TO LAWN HILL
Packed up, including water from town supply night before,
First 40km downwind on initially bitumen, the rolled earth capped with molassis to suppress dust (quite good surface) until the turnoff …
DAY 21 8 JULY TO GREGORY RIVER ON BITUMEN
DAY 21 8 JULY TO GREGORY RIVER ON BITUMEN
A straightforward day running downwind on a very good bitumen road to the small (pub, a shop in a shipping container, and an unused school and council works depot).
After …
DAY 20 7 JULY LEICHHARDT’S FALLS TO THE BURKE DEVELOPMENT ROAD – BITUMEN
DAY 20 7 JULY LEICHHARDT’S FALLS TO THE BURKE DEVELOPMENT ROAD – BITUMEN
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Latish start after taking pictures around the falls. The a 30 km straight run in a gentle crosswind to the Donors Hill / Augustus Downs …
DAY 19 6 JULY TO LEICHHARDT’S FALLS
DAY 19 6 JULY TO LEICHHARDT’S FALLS
Out of bed feeling much refreshed then back on the frog and toad.
Thanked the workers for their assistance when I was at my limit and back into it.
Straight forward day …
DAY 18 5 JULY NORMANTON TO WORKERS CAMP
DAY 18 5 JULY NORMANTON TO WORKERS CAMP
Got halfway to Leichhardt’s Falls before I blew out. Started getting the shivers which is too far beyond ‘bonking’ or ‘hittinh the wall ‘ for comfort. We were eyeing off a …
DAY 13 30 JUNE BLACK BULL TO NORMANTON
DAY 13 BLACK BULL TO NORMANTON
Hot. But perfectly flat. Bruce was querying his gps because it said that we were continually at 4-6 m elevation. Turned out it was right and we were on a huge flood plain …
DAY 15 2 JULY KARUMBA REST
DAY 15 2 JULY KARUMBA REST
The others went off to the barramundi fish farm at 9:30am while i recovered a bit. I joined them for lunch at a cafe.
Later Bruce organised an evening cruise for he and i …
DAY 17 4 JULY NORMANTON AND THE GULFLANDER
DAY 17 4 JULY NORMANTON AND THE GULFLANDER
Bruce was very keen that we got back to Normanton to ride The Gulflander 30km out to Critters Camp today. Duly on board we rattled and shook going out and 10 mins …
DAY 14 1 JULY NORMANTON TO KARUMBA
DAY 14 1 JULY NORMANTON TO KARUMBA
Slept well on a bed of leaves then off to Karumba. Occasionally a carload of charity riders would toot us as they headed back to Cairns after the festivities ending the charity run. …
DAY 12 29 JUNE LITTLE RIVER TO BLACK BULL
DAY 12 LITTLE RIVER TO BLACK BULL
Virtually flat to Croydon, yeay! But warm. Quite warm.
A NP worker drove down the track while we were having breakfast, probably checking out who had fires in the NP. He explained that …